After the "Rape pregnancies are gifts from God" statement by Illinois senate candidate Richard Mourdock, I ask Mitt Romney to formally retract his endorsement of Richard Mourdock.

As a citizen, I affirm freedom of religion. As a Christian, I believe a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis would place the beginning of life at the first breath -- at birth. A medical interpretation of the beginning of life might focus on the possibility of higher-order thought, given that a brain-dead person can be declared legally dead. Beliefs about the beginning of life--whether one chooses the moment an egg is fertilized, the detection of a fetal heartbeat, "quickening", fetal brain development, viability outside the womb, birth--are religious beliefs, and should not be imposed upon the public indiscriminately.

Last night, ANOTHER Republican candidate for office made another offensive comment about rape. This time it was Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock saying pregnancies resulting from rape are what God intended. But something about Mourdock's comment is even more disturbing: Mitt Romney just released an ad endorsing him. And while he's tepidly tried to distance himself from Mourdock today, he hasn't pulled his endorsement and the ad is still on the air. And Senator John Cornyn, head of the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee, is **defending** Mourdock. Can you send a clear message to Mitt Romney and Republican campaign committees about how you feel about these comments as a voter?

Women of the USA request clarification and a definitive position from Governor Romney on Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and equal pay for women.

The issues women are fighting for just now, health care , equal pay, contraception are all issues have for been fighting since 1969 I am 77 years old this Tuesday. We thought we had made a lot of progress, but the wood work seems to be full rats. I would like to invite the men in our lives to join us in voting to give us their support this year.

Women represent more than 50% of the population of the USA, but women only hold 27.6% or less of elected positions and/or Mitt appointed positions! Women make up only 16.8% of Congress. (90 women have been elected to Congress out of a total of 535 seats) - (61D, 29R - 16.8% of 535 seats) U.S. Senate 17 (12D, 5R - 17% of 100 seats) U.S. House 73 (49D, 24R - 16.8% of 435 seats) 42 percent of Romney’s appointments during his first two and a half years as governor were women, the number of women in high-level appointed positions actually declined to 27.6 percent during his full tenure as governor according to to a 2007 MassGAP study. In state Statewide Executive positions, including Governors and Lt. Governors, women hold 75, 23.4% of 320 positions. Sign the petition to get women out of Binders and in to Positions of Leadership in the Real World! To learn more about this issue visit: (http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/Current_Numbers.php)

Women should have the right their own decisions about our bodies.That should a woman and her doctors. We know when to make such a choice. My concerned that the Republicans wants to take away any and everything we have such as cutting Parentphandhood programs they are already working on it in some States and program that helps a lot of us.

I am distressed that the polls of women do not show overwhelming support for the Democratic ticket. How in heaven's name could ANY women support the g.o.p. ticket when they are commited to taking women back to the "dark ages". How is it possible that it's okay with any women, or any man who loves a woman -- wife, daughter, niece, grand-daughter -- to have pontifical men telling women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies? Especially in the case of rape! Oh, no, They would not have to bear the child of the criminal for nine long months. How can they justify ignoring the separation of church and state?

It is infuriating that anti-abortionists have been allowed to coin the self description of "pro-life" when committment to it stops at the first breath. This is evident in every position Republican politicians take. They oppose planned parenthood, PBS, head start, after school programs, free school lunches, art and music in school, they oppose controlling guns or ammo clips by any degree, they declared a war on drugs and privatized jails, making penal systems a for profit business. They are always rushing to war. They oppose universal access to health care and cut WIC funding. That's how "pro-life" they are and I'm only skimming the surface so this petiton doesn't get too long. Now they have openly declared a plan to overturn Roe v Wade. Ryan stated it plainly. These religious fanatics want to impose their highly debatable religious ideas on everyone. If there is no seperation between church and state, then we'll have to start stoning adulterers to death. I would really like any far right christian to tell me about how different their theocratic ideas are from the taliban's shariah law. It offends me that they pretend it's biblical that life begins at conception. They didn't know any embryology 6 thousand years ago. Life has always been recognized as out of the womb viability, at the first breath; during pregnancy it was a potential, not a person. It is the difference between seed and fruit. I am old enough to remember women dying from illegal abortions performed by butchers with wire hangers. I am not going back there. These people are simply anti choice where women's choices are concerned and lassez faire where life after the first breath is concerned. Ryan argued that the Supreme Court wasn't the right body to legislate a national recognition of a women's right to choose. He said it should be decided state by state. A coin toss for 50 states. What else should be returned to the states? Slavery? Women's vote? It kills me to hear all their rhetoric about small government, it's code speak for deregulation of all industries...so that unwanted pregnancy will grow up to be a child who gets to hear that there used to be a clean air and water act, but it was bad for the job creators. They'll hear that there used to be a living minimum wage and worker protections, but those were bad for the job creators too. They'll hear that America used to be a participatory democracy, but then there was the Citizen's United Supreme Court decision. That one should be overturned, like separate is equal was! Yeah, small government, now small enough to fit inside my uterus. We say NO to transvaginal government. One last thing. In reaction to things I'd read on various political fact checking organizations, such as politifact's "truth-o-meter". I did a web search "mormon theology and moral stance on lying" Google's first page came back with multiple references to an unfamiliar expression- "Lying for God". The jist is that if lying protects their church or advances it's mission, then, person to person lies of commission, of omission are not immoral because god is served. That must explain how he can be such a consumate liar without even one micro tic. Lying for God...please tell Republican voters about that, but don't have sex with them if none of this changes their vote to any ticket except romney/ryan.

Women's rights and criminality against them

Duncan Hunter is sponsor of HR 374, the "Life At Conception Act." Hunter wants to make his personal religious beliefs federal law. I, David Secor, am his opponent in CA D-50.

Todd "legitimate rape" Akin made his outrageous remarks just over a month ago. At the time, everyone, Republicans and Democrats alike, was scandalized. McConnell, Boehner, Romney and RNC chairman Prebus called for him to relinquish his candidacy and said he would get no more support. Now that the deadline for withdrawal has passed, not so much. Akin is back in the fold. It is apparent that all standards of character are disregarded when a Republican seat is at stake.